JUROR #2
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is proud to release the latest Clint Eastwood film, Juror #2, on Blu-Ray, DVD, and Digital this week. Director Clint Eastwood is always strong when he gives audiences an old-fashioned morality story. This film didn’t get the release it deserved and it should have been a bigger hit. It would be easy to classify this film as a courtroom drama, but Eastwood knows we’ve seen plenty of those films. He’d rather go behind the scenes of what happens with the jury and the downstream effects of the decision they have to make. Eastwood has an exceptional cast on his hands with Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, Gabriel Basso, Zoey Deutch, Leslie Bibb, J.K. Simmons, and Kiefer Sutherland.
It should be an exciting time for Nicholas Hoult’s character, Justin Kemp, as he’s expecting his first baby with wife Allison (Deutch). The road to fatherhood hasn’t been easy given previous failed pregnancies, and for the fact that Justin is a recovering alcoholic. He gets summoned for jury duty, and becomes Juror #2 despite trying to use his wife’s pregnancy as a wait to get out of serving. Justin finds himself on a murder trial where the defendant (Basso) has a domestic altercation with his girlfriend in a bar, and now he’s being tried for her murder after she was found dead in the woods. Toni Collette plays Faith Killebrew, the lead prosecutor with Chris Messina as the defense lawyer. As the opening arguments play out, Justin realizes he was at the bar that night and now his memory may not be the whole truth as he remembers it. The ensemble also features Leslie Bibb as the jury forewoman and J.K. Simmons as another member of the jury.
SPECIAL FEATURES
*There are no special features on this Blu-Ray release
Here’s a video I made for TikTok
Here’s my original review of the film
